Data Protection Notice

EUROPART takes pleasure in your visit to our website and your interest in our company and our products. By way of this Data Protection Notice we therefore want to inform you what data we save, and when and how we save them – of course by way of complying with the valid German data protection requirements.
EUROPART websites may contain links to websites of other supplies to which these data protection provisions do not apply.

General

At any user’s access to a site of www.europart.de of the EUROPART Holding and at any data retrieval, data will be stored about this process in a log file. The storage exclusively serves internal system-related and statistical purposes. In particular, the following data record will be stored about each retrieval:

• Name of the retrieved file
• Date and time of retrieval
• Amount of data transferred
• Message whether retrieval was successful
• Description of the type of web browser used
• Inquiring domain

Personal data are only saved if you make such data available to us for example during the course of registering or to execute a contract. EUROPART Holding employees undertake to treat personal data in confidence. Circulation of these data to third parties only, if this is necessary for the execution of the contract. Similarly, EUROPART Holding also places such third parties under obligation to comply with data protection requirements and maintain secrecy.

All data under www.europart.de located on our servers and “hosted” (i.e. stored) there are secured against unauthorized access through series-connected safety systems. Employees of the EUROPART Holding check the effectiveness of the protection periodically.

When you leave our site, e.g. by clicking onto our banner advertisement thus getting to outside sites, the addressees of the target site clicked on set so-called cookies. The EUROPART Holding is legally not responsible for these. Please compare the Privacy Policy Statements of our advertising partners on the use of such cookies and the information stored thereon.

Social Plugins

EUROPART uses so-called Social Plugins (hereinafter buttons) of the social networks Facebook and Google+.

When you visit our website, these buttons are deactivated as a standard feature, i.e. they do not forward any data to the respective social networks without action taken on your part. You need to activate these by clicking on them before you can use them.

Once activated, a direct link is established with the servers of the respective social network. The content of the buttons is then forwarded by the social networks directly to your browser and incorporated by your browser in the website.

Following the activation of a button, the respective social network can already collect data irrespective of whether or not you interact with the button. If you have logged in to a social network, it can allocate your visit to this website to your user account.

We do not have any influence on the scope of data collected by the social networks via your buttons. With regard to the purpose and scope of collecting data and the further processing and use of the data by the respective social networks as well as your rights in that respect and setting options for protecting your privacy, please see the data protection notices of the respective social networks.

Automatically recorded, non-personal data and the generation of cookies

Accessing our websites, sometimes (i.e. not via a registration) generated information is automatically collected that cannot be assigned to certain individuals (e.g. by means of an Internet browser or an operating system; domain names of websites, from which access is made via a web link; number of visits; mean staying time; retrieved sites). We and our group companies use this information in order to continuously improve and update our website appearance as well as enhance our attraction.

When you visit one of our websites, it may happen that information originated by us in form of a “cookie” will be transferred to your computer which will automatically recognise your computer when visiting us the next time. Amongst others, cookies allow us to adapt a website according to your wishes or store your password such that you will not need to re-enter it each time visiting us. If you do not wish us to recognise information about your computer, please set your Internet browser so that it will delete cookies from your computer hard disk, block all cookies or warn you before a cookie is stored.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis services of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called Cookies, text files that are stored on your computer and which facilitate an analysis of how you use the website. The information created by the Cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address which, however, is rendered anonymous prior to saving by way of the method _anonymizeIp() such that it can no longer be allocated to a connection) is forwarded to a Google server in the USA and saved there.  Google shall use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to put together reports on the website activities for the website operator and to render additional services associated with the website and internet use. Where applicable, Google shall also forward this information to third parties insofar as this is legally specified or insofar as third parties process the data by order of Google. Under no circumstances shall Google associate your IP address with other data of Google.

By way of using this website you consent to the processing of your personal data that have been gathered by Google in the manner described above and for the purpose described above.

You can prevent the installation of cookies by way of a corresponding setting in your browser software; however, we draw attention to the fact that in such a case you may not be able to fully use all the functions on this website.

Furthermore, you can prevent the recording of the data created by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and forwarding to Google as well as the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in via the following link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Enquiries

Should you have any questions, you can also contact us directly: please write to:  EUROPART Holding, GmbH, Data Protection Officer, Martinstraße 13, D-58135 Hagen-Haspe.